04228nam 2200757 450 991082296540332120230126212935.00-253-01660-6(CKB)3710000000413839(EBL)2051319(OCoLC)909028273(SSID)ssj0001481662(PQKBManifestationID)11893807(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001481662(PQKBWorkID)11502610(PQKB)11515607(MdBmJHUP)muse47924(MiAaPQ)EBC2051319(Au-PeEL)EBL2051319(CaPaEBR)ebr11055694(EXLCZ)99371000000041383920150527h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCuba's racial crucible the sexual economy of social identities, 1750-2000 /Karen Y. MorrisonBloomington, Indiana ;Indianapolis, [Indiana] :Indiana University Pres,2015.©20151 online resource (373 p.)Blacks in the DiasporaDescription based upon print version of record.0-253-01654-1 0-253-01646-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: A crucible of race : historicizing the sexual economy of Cuban social identities -- Ascendant capitalism and white intellectual re-assessments of Afro-Cuban social value to 1820 -- Slavery and Afro-Cuban family formation during Cuba's economic awakening, 1763-1820 -- The illegal slave trade and the Cuban sexual economy of race, 1820-1867 -- Nineteenth-century racial myths and the familial corruption of whiteness -- Afro-Cuban family emancipation, 1868-1886 -- "Regenerating" the Afro-Cuban family, 1886-1940 -- Mestizaje literary visions and Afro-Cuban genealogical memory, 1920-1958 -- Epilogue: Revolutionary social morality and the multi-racial national family, 1959-2000."For the past two centuries, competing views of Cuban racial identity have remained in continuous tension, with whiteness, blackness, and race mixture variably upheld as ideals. Cuba's Racial Crucible explores the historical dynamics behind Cuban racial identities by highlighting the racially-selective reproductive practices and genealogical memories associated with family formation. Karen Y. Morrison reads archival, oral-history, and literary sources to demonstrate the ideological centrality and inseparability of race, nation, and family in definitions of Cubanidad. Morrison analyzes the conditions that supported the social advance and decline of notions of white racial superiority, nationalist projections of racial hybridity, and pride in African descent that influenced, but also were shaped by, Cuban men and women's every day, racially-oriented choices in creating families"--Provided by publisher.Blacks in the diaspora.Black peopleRace identityCubaHistoryWhite peopleRace identityCubaHistoryRacially mixed peopleRace identityCubaHistoryHuman reproductionSocial aspectsCubaHistoryHuman reproductionEconomic aspectsCubaHistoryGenealogySocial aspectsCubaHistoryFamiliesCubaHistoryNationalismSocial aspectsCubaHistoryCubaRace relationsHistoryCubaRace relationsEconomic aspectsHistoryBlack peopleRace identityHistory.White peopleRace identityHistory.Racially mixed peopleRace identityHistory.Human reproductionSocial aspectsHistory.Human reproductionEconomic aspectsHistory.GenealogySocial aspectsHistory.FamiliesHistory.NationalismSocial aspectsHistory.305.80097291Morrison Karen Y.1621540MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822965403321Cuba's racial crucible3954871UNINA